Separated at birth from the fleshy bridge at the top of their heads, twin brothers struggle to recapture their almost mythical bond after one betrays the other.The narrator, a surgeon,has an inner conflict to forgive/take revenge against his brother for his betrayal.As a backdrop,the exhuberance of Ethiopia: vegetation, cuisine, civil war,gut-instinct medical practice, and human emotions and passions, come alive in this intense novel written by Verghese.You will become the narrator's eyes and hands when he operates on his patients, and when his mind's eye lurks into the psyche of his brother,Shiva; Genet , his childhood friend and sweetheart; his adoptive parents,Hema and Ghosh, and ultimately his long-lost father,Dr. Stone, a world-famous surgeon.Reading Marion's story is a multisensorial journey that awakens the senses to a new continent and the life experiences of Ethiopians.
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